Arkansas public schools have gotten their grades in an annual accountability report, but the state education commissioner says parents need to look deeper into the statistics to get an idea how a school is doing.

Opponents of a set of uniform benchmarks for reading, writing and math that have been fully adopted in most states asked Arkansas lawmakers Monday to back out of the standards, saying the plan takes away the state's control over its classrooms.

The state's top schools official and a coalition of education advocates are urging Arkansas lawmakers to reject legislation that would create an independent state commission to consider charter school applications.